UCLA head coach DeShaun Foster addresses media before starting final week of fall camp 8/19

we just open up to you guys um mention I guess uh some kind of scrimmage this week um can you tell us when that's going to be no idea we're just going to go hard get ready for Hawaii this week practice um Wednesday will be a green practice so we'll be a full path but we're going to continue to be safe and uh make it to the game um as far as you know you know obviously we've been asked you about position battles and all that throughout Camp did any of them get decided over this last weekend no not yet we still have one more week before um Hawaii so we're still in training camp mode and most of the guys are still in the competition but you know some stuff has settled a little bit but next week will probably be sure how close are you with the punter and the kicker competitions and that that's one position that's one position that has gone into this week you know we want to put them in a couple um just like game like situations try to get to some competitive period just for them just to see who can you know with 11 guys out there who really shines we uh we saw Jaylen Bergers out here now what's he look like to you the good back you know um just an experienced guy he's played before has got a lot of carries has played in his conference so you know it was a good addition is he uh full go now or is he still kind of rounding into form um probably rounding in the form still okay you know he's add we're adding more periods each day so have you sorted out which assistants are going to be on the field and which are going to be in the Press Box for game base yeah but you guys will see that on Saturday um as far as shareif goes uh do you expect him to ramp up his participation at any time yeah he's the same he's probably maybe a couple days behind Burger so what you saw Burger start a little bit last week so probably he'll get a little bit more this week Shere you wanted to make this feel like a real camp situation right so you took the team kind of away to be doing that how have you seen the camaraderie develop from this group oh it was huge you know I made um one offensive player stay with a defensive player so it wasn't just position I just really wanted them to come together they did a lot of team bonding things events you know they went bowling or dinner um so I just you can kind of see it last night just how they all came together when they were single lean on me but um I'm just happy with with the strides were making in that direction you know I just wanted the team to come together just like NFL Camp you come together and camp and really get ready to take on the world uh we've got some injury updates uh would you say the General Health of the team is pretty good haven't suffered any like big injuries uh during the uh Team periods out here yeah nothing during during the team perod it was you know just guys getting back from Spring but um I was I'm you know I'm still exactly make sure we make it out of this week and get to game we I know you you kind of refrain from putting a win total when asked about you know what the first season what your expectations are as far as what would you deem a successful season what's unacceptable and how much grace do you give yourself should you you know encounter any bumps along the way as long as my play team's playing with discipline respect and enthusiasm and wins or losses and I'm happy you know cuz it's all about how you play the game and that will determine the outcome so as long as guys are fighting playing hard and really giving it their all we should be good how would you grade the tackling in camp at this point um that's something hard to cuz we haven't done a whole lot of live periods so that's something that's been hard to evaluate but guys are in position and making plays and staying up so you know we're we're looking forward to this this game coming up in this day and age where there's less and less hitting allowed how do you create a physical team in training camp how much emphasis has been just on being that kind of a team I mean you don't have to tackle to the ground to be to be physical it's more of like body placement where you are on the field stuff like that so I um guys can they can show that you can be physical without tackling and you have to be in position it's more putting your body in position to make the play so I just like guys are really trying to be technical in that in that department in that area awesome thank you you sure